Re: [xsl] •

[Greg Martel <gregm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks guys, this is helpful; but as for using 
disable-output-escaping, I was not able to use it for this character 
(yes, Wendell, I tried). When I tried to define either #8226 or 8226 
as the entity reference in my stylesheet, I got a message that the 
file was not well-formed. However, when I changed the entity 
reference to anything that starts with a letter "<!ENTITY bull" 
instead of "<!ENTITY #8226" or "<!ENTITY 8226" I was able to save the 
file without incident. I use XML spy over Xalan-Java, or MSXML4 so 
maybe what I am seeing is caused by XML SPY? Doesn't seem likely.

Anyway, when I was unable to save the file, I leaped to the (wrong) 
conclusion that somehow defining an entity that doesn't start with a 
letter of the alphabet is illegal in XML, at least in an XSL 
stylesheet. Any guesses as to why I get the message telling me that 
this can be saved:

<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
<!ENTITY ntilde
"<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&amp;ntilde;</xsl:text>">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet . . .


and this:

<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
<!ENTITY #8226
"<xsl:text disable-output-escaping>&amp;8226;</xsl:text>">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet . . .


cannot because it's not well-formed?






> >  Why doesn't this XML content:      &amp;#8226;
> >  produce this output:               &#8226;
>
> Why do you think it should? The first is 6 characters in the stylesheet.
> 6 non white space characters in character data always just produce 6
> characters in the output. Your required output is one character
> reference. To get that character put &#8226; into the stylesheet.
>
> >  It's bloody nigh impossible to get my XML parser (Xalan-Java) NOT to
> >  recognize entities except for this one case where recognizing it
>
> It does recognise it. &amp; means an ampersand as character not as
> markup, so that's what appears in the result tree. But that ampersamd
> character in teh result tree has to be linearised as &amp; otherwise
> parsing teh result wouldn't reproduce that character.
>
> You haven't said why you think just putting &#8226; into the stylesheet
> does not work.
>
> David
>
>
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Thanks,

gregm

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